Knowing thyself.

Too many white Americans are racists without consciously knowing it. That’s a problem. Because the first step in getting things right is to know thyself. These white Americans think like white Americans. They find it difficult, if not impossible, to imagine what it’s like to live as a black American. To be profiled. To be slighted. To be treated as less than white. For these white Americans, I wish their skin color could be turned black. For a year or two.  So they could truly obtain the black experience. Not in an imagined way, but a real way.  Maybe that would make them more conscious -- and less racist. –Jim Broede